Amanda Kloots is making a brand new start of it. The former Radio City Rockette, Broadway dancer and fitness influencer, who lost her 41-year-old husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero, to Covid-19 related complications just about a year ago, a harrowing process she documented on Instagram, has a high-profile new gig as a co-host of the Daytime Emmy-winning — and currently mired in controversy — chat-fest “The Talk” and a chic new house in L.A.’s leafy and illustrious Laurel Canyon to call home.
Tax records indicate Kloots’ new cottage was sold for exactly $2 million by veteran branding and marketing exec Todd Hunter, former co-head of creative at CAA turned cannabis entrepreneur and co-founder of Offfield, a non-psychoactive CBD product specifically intended to be used to enhance the experience of exercising. Hunter acquired the property in late 2014 for a tetch over $1.2 million.
Set on an approximately 5,000-square-foot street-to-street lot, the alluring 1937 Colonial Revival Cottage is secreted behind a dense, mile-high hedge interrupted only by a secured gate set into a tall and slender brick archway. Measuring in at a modest-by-celeb-standard 1,900 square feet, the vine-adorned and dormer-roofed residence has just two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a detached single car garage converted to additional living space.
While the exterior remains true to its original and unpretentious design with a sweet front porch and windows that, if not original, still appropriately adhere to the vernacular, the interior spaces have been opened up and stripped down to its more modern-minded and loft-like bare essentials, with lustrous dark-brown wood floors, an open-plan layout and inconspicuous moldings where there are moldings at all.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The front door opens casually into the combination entry and living room area that’s been gussied-up with a simple and sophisticated thickly veined marble fireplace.
The clean-lined restraint of the open-plan living and dining areas, and the boxy right-angled design of the kitchen, is unexpectedly and fantastically upended, not to mention cleverly balanced, by an elegant and gracefully curved floating staircase.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A wee den or office just off the living and dining space spills out through three-paned French doors set into a wall of nearly floor-to-ceiling windows to a brick-paved terrace.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Wrapped walls and vaulted ceiling with trendy shiplap, and arranged around a roomy island that accommodates a three-stool snack peninsula, the expensively equipped kitchen sports thick white marble counters, top-quality designer appliances and a handy-dandy pantry complete with wine fridge.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com One side of the kitchen opens to an tree-shaded lounging terrace and the other flows out to a dining patio that is also accessible from the den.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The guest bedroom is on the main floor, along with a nearby bathroom sheathed in what is likely original burgundy and white tile work. The kitchy etched glass shower door adds to the vintage vibe.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A private retreat that occupies the entire second floor under an interestingly sloped ceiling, the primary bedroom offers a second marble fireplace, French doors to an itty-bitty balcony, a walk in closet and a simply updated bathroom.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The grounds additionally include a graveled patio planted with a lemon tree and a single-car garage stylishly refurbished into a dynamite, light-filled home office with skylights in the beamed and vaulted ceiling and a vintage 1970s wood stove.
The listing was held by Tori Horowitz of Compass, who also repped Kloots in the deal.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com This is not the first or only home in Los Angeles — or Laurel Canyon — owned by Kloots. Just about two years ago she and her late husband, who never ended up living there, paid about $830,000 for a late 1940s cottage nipped down an almost impassably slim lane in the proverbial heart of the neighborhood made world famous in the 1960s and ’70s for its many influential countercultural rock musician residents, from Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison and Jackson Browne to Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstadt and Mama Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas.